
John Duffy and David Mulcahy
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Oct 19, 2026
The Life Scientific: David Canter
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1:34Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
His early career focused on how environments like buildings or cities shape behaviour, and moved on to explore how we act in emergency situations.
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1:44Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
But in 1985, when police asked for his help on what became known as the Railway Rapist case, David applied his rigorous methodology to help track down the offender – and changed the course of criminal profiling in the process.
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1:58Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
Since then, he's contributed to numerous investigations and given evidence in court cases, authored influential books, and built an entire discipline from the ground up.
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2:08Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
And he's also found time to get a PhD in music composition as well.
15 MINS LATER
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17:14David CanterGUEST
And then they had a series of rapes and murders around London.
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17:17David CanterGUEST
And they asked me if I could, the way they put it, could you help us catch this man before he kills again?
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17:23Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
So this is what the media dubbed the railway rapist.
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17:27Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
And you were applying your new methodology to this case, what would become investigative psychology.